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...Billout, and one in January on the international "debt bomb" used drawings by David Suter. This week's cover subject, the alarming growth and extent of personal violence, especially within families and among people who know each other, was another such opportunity. Says Deputy Art Director Irene Ramp: "We wanted to convey the sense of violence and violation, the shame and helplessness of being a victim, without horrifying the reader or sensationalizing the victims. Art work had the advantage of being able to distill the emotional impact and move it from the too realistic to the abstract...
...achieve those aims for the cover and the inside illustrations, Ramp chose Matt Mahurin, a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., who has previously contributed drawings to the Op-Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. Mahurin, 24, started by taking photographs, then worked paint and emulsion onto the prints, using a minimal amount of color and leaving much of the photographs visible. "I wanted to create a dreamlike effect," he says, "the feeling of seeing a photograph without the immediacy." Mahurin, who has always wanted to focus artistically...
...School student charged that the University had overlooked a federal law requiring that newly-refurbished facilities be made accessible to the handicapped. The University altered its plans to include 30 permanent seats and 65 temporary seats for the disabled, as well as reserved parking spaces and a wheelchair ramp. Contractors started work in March on the alterations, which will cost about...
...every bridge and overpass along the route, at every entrance and exit ramp, in rest areas and upon medians people were standing. Among the mourners were his players, present and past, including Joe Namath, Richard Todd, Lee Roy Jordan, John David Crow; and his coaching colleagues, like Bud Wilkinson, Darrell Royal, Eddie Robinson, Woody Hayes. "When I heard, it was like March 31, 1931," said Hayes, 69, the historian. "I was on the practice field. Someone came over to me and said, 'Rockne is dead.' Rockne was the great coach of his era; this man is the great...
...commutes. A nation of indefatigable cross-country travelers could thoroughly indulge its passion for movement. Still, this remarkable, concrete achievement rarely inspires pride or awe. A high-speed trip down an Interstate, its fringes bare of shops and homes, is seldom rich with incident. Life begins at the exit ramp. Rosemarie Clark knows; she maps travel routes for members of the A.A.A. in Topeka, Kans. Says Clark: "We get a lot of people who come in and say, 'No Interstates.' They want to see America...